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ft AUTOMOTIVE
mto Used Cars And
Trucks For Sale
& See J. B. PUCKETT
p Delta Investment Company
| Thone 1066.
N-102
1928 Chevrolet Touring. New Duco
finish. New tires. Mechanical
ly 0. K..$465.00
1927 Chevrolet Landau Sedan. Looks
like new car. Mechanically O.
K. New Duco finish. Good
tires ..$150.00
1927 Ford Roadster. New Duco fin
ish. Good tires. Good mechan
ical condition .$250.00
STEVENSON MOTOR CO.
10th and Adams. Brownsville.
FOR SALE: 1923 Ford coupe, $30.
Call 1166._ N158
Chevrolet Coupe
good condition $125.
Harry’s Vulcanizing
Shop
Help Wanted
WANTED: Efficient housekeeper.
Must java good health id furnish
reference. Address Mrs. A. E. An
derson, city. L-178
GET PAY EVERY DAY
Distribute 150 necessary products to
establish users in Brownsville. Ex
tracts. Soaps, Food Products, etc.
Worlds largest Company will back
you with surprising plan. Write The
J. R. Watkir.s Company. 70-54 West
Iowa Ave. Memphis, Tenn. Applica
r tions also invited from hustlers in
Weslaco, Harlingen, McAllen. Hi
dalgo. N-168
Help Wanted
LARGEST FIRM of its kind in the
Valley wants young man for office
must be able to use type
1 wPfffer. Address N-159, care Herald.
N-159
I SITUATIONS WANTED
WANTED — Agricultural college
graduate desires employment in the
Valley. Experienced, industrious
and capable. Nine years county
agent experience. Best references.
Age 40. W. E. Hart, Harlingen.
Texas, general delivery. N-141
YOUNG LADY, experienced in book
keeping and office work, desires po
sition. Phone 830. N-134
BOOKKEEPER
Situation wanted by thoroughly ex
perienced bookkeeper, auditor,
cashier, and office executive. Can
handle your trial balance, financial
statements, neatly, accurately, and
quickly. Do not use intoxicants nor
smoke. Want to locate in Valley;
small sets of books considered and
appreciated. Address N-169, care
Herald._ **-**9
WANTED—Position by lady book
keeper and stenographer combined,
five vears experience, good refer
ences furnished. Remington Book
keeping Machine experience. Address
GEe, Alamo. Texas.N-171
Salesmen «— Agents
WANTED—Salesmen and saleswom
en. $10.00 to $20.00 a day easy. Mar
velous window washing invention.
Something new; no competition. Also
direct manager wanted. Inquire Mr.
Hayes. McAllen hotel. Room 221. 3 to
8 p. m., McAllen, Texas. N178.
SALESMEN wanted to sell Chevro
let. Stevenson Motor Co., Inc., 10th
Adams. Brownsville. N176. I
Business Notices
1 HAVE sold my store, known as La
India Grocery. and will not
be responsible for any debts
contracted after February 9.
Also, all accounts receivable up to j
that date are to be paid to me
George A. Covacevich. N-142J
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY
FOR SALE—Hotel in good town;
good business, long lease, easy
terms; a real bay. Address Miller
Hotel, Mission, Texas. N-78
FOR SALE—Fixtures and stock of a
cafe. Cheap. Good location. Big
business. Owners leaving town.
Call at Black Diamond Cafe. N-167
PERSONAL
LEARN TO PLAY BRIDGE in ten
lessons from unofficial bridge cham
pion of Princeton university. Inquire
Apt. 5, 739 Madison street. N-143
PAST, PRESENT and future—If in
trouble, about business worries,
hcr.lth, wealth, happiness, or love af
fairs, visit these gifted ladies: Mes
dames Rosetta and Lotos at The
Cameron Hotel. Hours 10 to 12
a. m. and 1 to 5 p. m. N-172
Lost and Found
REWARD—Will person who picked
up an engineer’s level instrument
about 2 miles east of Brownsville
on 14th street please return to The
Herald office? Reward. N-146
LIVE 7T0CK—POULTRY
FOR SALE—Pure-bred German po
lice pups from prize winning stock,
priced right. See Paul Lane, 1 mile
south of the Stuart Place, 2 miles
west of Harlingen. N-140
Treea — Seeds — Plants
FOR SEEDS of all kinds, see Mason
Transfer and Grain Co., 1105 Adams.
M-126
BUDDING ! ! Would like to bud
your sour orange seedlings on shares.
Will furnish buds. Fleet A. Lentz,
Mercedes, Texas, phone 9002F11.
M-288.
FOR SALE—10 acres citrus orchard,
two-year-old trees; frontage on Ar
royo Colorado. Postoffice box 728,
San Benito, Texas. N109.
FOR SALE: Louisiana Pink Tomato
Slants. Phone 1296-R or 394. Paul
. Dye._N47.
MISCELLANEOUS \
DRESSMAKING wanted; children’s
clothes a specialty. Phone 9001F12.
N110
DRESSMAKING and plain sewing.
Call at house nearest Palm Blvd. on
Resaca Drive in Belvedere, or inquire
at Herald office. M-255
Articles For Sale
FOR SALE: One 5x7 McCrory, one
5x7 Viking meat cooler boxes suit
able for dairy or grocery fixtures
M. System, La Feria, Texas. M99
LADIES HOSE mended; runs, pulls.
■ and snags. Valley Hose Mending Co.
! <45 Elizabeth.1-19*
500,000 common mud bricka for sale
J. S. Ford. Brownsville. H-164
PIANOS repossessed like new. $14)50
1 Baldwin Grand. $400.00 paid; will
sacrifice; also used piano and play
er bargains. Carl Moeller Music
Store, opposite M. P. Depot, Wesla
co, Texas. 9 M-216
GOOD cane hay for sale. $15.00 to
$20.00 per ton, delivered within 0
mile* of Brownsville. J. B. Kee. 1523
West Elizabeth St„ Brownsville,
Texas. Phono 1393W. M-73.
LARGE bleached flour sacks, 2 to
5 dozen delivered Valley points,
$1.20 dozen. Phone 850-J. Valley
Sack Exchange, 105 St. Charles St.,
Brownsville. N167
Buy or Exchange
FOR EXCHANGE—Sixteen acr.j
farm, fair improvement*, 5 1-2 miles
from Brownsville near good school
and pavement. Want residence in
Brownsville or Olmito. Phone 842.
N120.
FOR EXCHANGE: Small farm less
than six miles from Brownsville
near good school and concrete road.
Will exchange for vacant lots or im
proved residence property. Address,
Owner, P. O. Box 831, Brownsville,
Texas.N64
FOR EXCHANGE — San Antonio
apartment house for Brownsville
property. J. S. Ford & Sons. N-147
REAL ESTATE
FINE 12-ACRE tract on Banker Road
half mile from Brownsville. Con
crete canal and good drainage. $850
per acre. Carlos G. Watson, owner.
M-21
SUMMIT PLACE
Brownsville’s new buiiness and
residential sub-division. Just one
mile from Elizabeth Street, on
Fourteenth Street—the busy thor
oughfare leading to the proposed
ahip channel and turning basin
—through the rich farming sec
tion of El Jardin—to the mu
nicipal airport and on to South
point. Easy terms. Investigate
TODAY. Office 14th and Hays
Sts. J. J. Dallas. Sales Manager,
phene 336, Brownsville, Texas.
M-285.
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FOR SALE
20 acres good irrigated land in
El Jardin Traet, well drained;
price $100.00 per acre, terms.
60 acres irrigated land in El
Jardin tract, all in cultivation
and rented; on concrete highway,
electric line; price $125.00 per
cere, cash.
40 acres all in cultivation and
rented; one mile from small
town and concrete road; price
$150.00 per acre, terma.
17 acres near Brownsville, all
in cultivation, good house, well
and windmill; about 3 acres
bearing grove, good citrus land;
price $15,000.00.
James-Dickinrion
Company
Corner Travelers Hotel
Phone 450 Brownsville, Texas
M-162
F_L ESTATE
LAND BARGAINS—162 acrta—*85
acres—Donna district, cultivated.
Nothing better. Priced low. Wire,
write or call—C. H. Swallow, Alamo,
Texas. Y-2S5
OWNER WILL SELL 30 acres good
resaca land, irrigated, in cultivation,
Harlingen district, only $75 an acre,
cash, balance easy. Need moaey.
Also 10 acres at paving, Ri-> Hondo*
San Benito road, 5 acres citrns.
H. H. Parks, San Benito, Texas,
phone 6025FI 1. M264
REVENUE bearing property for sale
cheap; small investment: call quick.
Box N65, Herald. N65.
NOTICE discontended Valley farm
ers: Am selling 25 acres in 5-acre
blocks near city limits, San Marcos,
Texas, near good schools and col
leges. For particulars write J. C.
Tyson, San Marcos, Tex. N176.
FOR SALE: Grapefruit orchard 2
1-2 acres with 7-rooni house on it.
On good street, adjoining McAllen.
$8500, terms. F. G. Collins, 912
Fifteenth St., Des Moines, la.
M208.
FOR SALE—fiO acres irrigated land
ready for cultivation; well drained;
4 miles from town, in El Jardin.
Must be sold to close estate. In
quire L. D. Jones, Glenwood Hotel.
__M-252
IT’S SO EASY to pick up your tele
phone and talk to a classified ad
taker.
For Sub-Division
160 Acres
Located 4 blocks from the high
school and closer to Brownsville
than the exclusive Los Ebanos
Subdivision. Winding resaca
running through property offer
ing natural lake front sites for
subdivision. This property is
for sale by owners and can be
bought at a very attractive price.
Henson-Lomax & Houston and
Brownsville Development Co.
SEVEN HOUSES
AND LOTS
Duplex, tri-plex and tri-plex garage
with apartments above. Modern in
every way- Will trade for property,
farm, lands or citrus land anywhere
in Cameron county. I can and do
handle property anywhere in the
United States.
D. B. MEADOWS CO.
Baker Bldg. Harlingen, Texas.
N-150
MUST BE SOLD at sacrifice at once,
fifteen acre four year old bearing
citrus grove, four mile# from
Brownsville, one thousand feet from
new hard surface >-oad tj the bank
of a beautiful resaca irrigating
ditch running through property;
electric highline and telephone. Sev
en thousand five hundred cash. 848
West Washington. Phone 1398-W.
_ N4«
FOR SALE—Paying income property,
1 7-10 acres, 9 furnished cottages,
city conveniences, 30 bearing eitrus
trees. Price $6000 cash, some terms
Box 455, San Benito, Texas. N161
Farms For Sale
OWNER OFFERS 10 acres west of
Brownsville on Military paving, ripe
for subdivision; also 10 acres, two
acres planted to citrus, at Olmito
I need money, the price is right. H. H
Parks, phone 6025F11, San Benito.
Texas. M263
JUST A NICE SEVEN-ACRE TRACT
ALL IN TREES
.Located in the heart of the Valley,
just 1 1-2 miles from Pharr, on the
main paved highway; 5-room house,
with electric lights and running wa
ter. Other improvements good
Good income from the orchard • ext
year. Part of the trees six years
old. Best buy in Valley. Write
me for particulars. 0. E. Eby, Har
lingen, Texas. N-97
FOR SALE BY OWNER, one ten
acre tract of resaca citrus land; or
chards on both sides; only ft roe
miles from Brownsville on paved
highway. Box N-lll, Herald.
Kill
FOR SALE BY OWNER—Sixteen
acre farm with eight room house,
five and a fraction miles from
Brownsville, near good school, about
200 yards from concrete highway.
Reasonable price and terms. Address
P. 0. Box 831, Brownsville, Texas.
N84.
FOR SALE—By owner. 96 3-4 acres
fine irrigated citrus and truck land
adjoining Edcouch and paved road.
All cultivated, good drainage, wa
ter and improvements. Will divide;
priced low; no trades. Geo. R. Car
ter, Edcouchj Texas, M171
BARGAIN for quick sale. Five-room
house with cas. hot water and gar
age. 1410 W. Elizabeth. J. Hslti
ner, owner. N-98
WILL SACRIFICE my last two beau
tiful homes. Better hurry; only
two left e rooms and bath; textone
two-tone finish; beautiful light fix
tures: automatic water heaters. See
Mrs. Florence Stafford, owner. Hayes
and 17th streets. Victoria Heights,
phone 1075-M. K-170
FOR SALE, by owner, 33.5 acres of
fine citrus land. Cleared, well drain
ed, water available. Quarter mile
from paved highway, seven miles
from Brownsville. Inquire of C. A.
Burton, Brownsville. Texas. M-5
FOR SALE
Two lota In Edinburg: tnree lots
in San Benito: 33 lots in Browns
ville; seven lots outside Browns
ville city limits; twenty per cent
''ash. balance in one. two. three and
four vears: or monthly payments
if preferred. B. E. Hinkiey. Bro -
villa. H-69
SACRIFICE well located Elizabeth
street lot, only $2,500. Also well
located trackage lot on Fronton
street, only $1,500. S. C. Graham &.
Co. phone 179, Brownsville, Texas.
N-148
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FOR SALE—Improved 2-3 of lota 9
and 10, block 94, Adams 1111. J. 0.
Hoyt, Box 251, Monterrey, N. L..
Mexico. l|-256!
REAL ESTATE
Lots For Sale
THREE BEAUTIFUL terraced lots
on Levee street corner One of the
best apartment house sights in
Brownsville. Must be sold at once.
$5,000.00. Owner leaving town. 848
West Washington. Phone 1398W.
__N30
Houses For Sale
FOR RENT: Bedroom suitable for
two men, close in, next to bath. Sep
arate entrance, reasonable rent. Ap
ply Black Diamond Cafe. N177.
RENTALS
FOR RENT—Store rooms In Steg
man building. Bert Cromaclc. M56.
FOR RENT—8-room house, 4-room
house, 5-room house, 6-room house, t
fine apartment on Palm Blvd., and
a duplex in West Brownsville. South
ern Realty Co., phone 914. N29
FURNISHED HOUSE, avery conven
ience; on pavement; five rooms,
sleeping porch, garage. Also two
room house, sleeping porch, garage.
Also two single sleeping rooms.
Phone 1328-W._ N62
WANTED TO RENT—Modern 10 or
12-room house, close in. furnished
or unfurnished. Responsible people.
Must be reasonable. Address N-156,
Herald office. N-15G
Apartments
FOR RENT—4-room apartment, also
bedroom; all modem conveniences.
Mary D. Collins, 132 W. Levee.
_N-153
FOR RENT: Two furnished apart
ments, 1400 Adams, phone 274.
_M173
NEBRASKA APARTMENTS - Fur
nished, every convenieoce, frigidaire.
and gss ranges. Jeffereoi. and Four
teenth Streets. Phone 11.4. W-42
FOR RENT—Four-room apartment
equipped with gas range. Frigidaire,
automatic water heater and modern
plumbing. Garage. Apply on prem
ises at Fourteenth ard Garfield.
M-89
ROOMS and apartments. 701 8t.
Charles Tel. 1017.*71
FURNISHED apartments and duplex.
Phene 851. ¥-3.
TWO SMALL apartments at twenty
dollars and one 4-room apartment st
thirty-five. Clean; close in; on paved
street. Phone 175. N-39
FURNISHED APARTMENT in new
Duplex, 1114 West Elisabeth street.
Every convenience and garage. Tele
phone 1013-W. N-37
FOR RENT to couple: Newly fur
nished apartment in duplex, phone
1273J.N73.
NICE FOUR-ROOM unfurnished
apartment with garage, also 4-room
furnished apartment. D. L. Welch,
phone 470. N17
— . — M , - .. ■■ .A
FOR RENT: 2-room apartment and
bath, gas and lights. Call at 247 St.
Charles or phone 90. N128.
NEW APARTMENTS and roomsTev"
erything furnished. 1022 West St.
Francis, phone 957-J. N121.
SWEENEY APARTMENTS — Nice
apartment vacant; completely fur
nished; modern, cool, electrical re
frigeration, garage, maid service.
Phone 1038-W, First and Adams.
N-138
• FOR RENT—Apartment, upstairs;
private bath; all conveniences. 1517
Madison St. K38
NICELY FURNISHED three-rocm
apartment, with gas. Garage free.
$30. Phone 946-W. N164
FOR RENT: Three room apartment
with bath and gas stoves and lights.
Phone 90 or call at 247 St. Charles
St. N165
Furnished Rooms
BEDROOM with gas, $3.00. Phone
995-J. L162.
ROOMS, one block from postoffice
one block from El Jardin hotel;
large, southern exposure; reasona
bit. Phone 1226W or 1317. M-215
SLEEPING ROOM and apartment.
1022 St. Charles, phone 928-J.
M-159
FOR RENT—One of three big fur
nished rooms; gas. electricity, east
front, double garage. Call 171-J or
1052-J; 332 Washington or 340
Washington. N-154
FOR RENT—Well furnished sleep
ing room; twin beds, meals if de
sired; also housekeeping apartment,
close in. Phone 189. — L-45
NICELY FURNISHED ROOM. Call
at Delta Hotel, 808 1-2 Elizabeth St,
one block from postoffice. Phone 804.
M-68,
FURNISHED ROOM with gas. ad
joining bathroom. Private home.
Garage. Good neighborhood. 233 St.
Charles street. Phone 1307-W.
N-139
Houses For Rent
HOLLOW TILE and stucco 6 rooms
just completed. On West Levee,
near Pita. Phone 325, after 6 p. m.
N-24
MODERN 5-room house with gas,
garage. Phone 911. M28.4
FOR RENT—5-roora furnished house.
12th and St. Charles. Phone 722.
M-251
TO RENT—5-room house, beautiful
ly furnished, hot and cold water, gaa
electric lights, double garage. Has to
be seen to be appreciated. Call 703
or 1075M. N26.
FOR RENT: 4-room cottage and
bath. Apply 709 Fourteenth street.
* N118
5 ROOM MODERN house with large
sleeping porch; hot water, garage,
on pavement. 1524 West Elizabeth
street. Call any morning. 546.00
per month. N170
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS
Sealed bids will be received ad
dressed to the Honorable A. B. Cole,
Mayor, up until 10:00 a. m, March 1,
1929, for 1200 sacks of cement de
livered to the Municipal Airport.
A certified check of 2 per cent of
the amount will be required. The
City reserves the right to reject
anv and all bids.
A. E. MUNDAY.
City Secretary.
9 to 18 inc. 10t-3326
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS
Sealed bids will be received ad
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
dressed to the Honorable A. B. Cola,
Mayor, no until 10:00 a. m. March
1, 1929, for the laving of monolithic
concT«t« floor at the Airport. Sped
ficatina are on file at the City
Manager’s office.
A certified check to the amount of
2 per cent of the bid will be re
el uired.
The city reserves the right to re
ject any and all bids.
City Secretary.
A. E. MUNDAY,
an Ordinance
AN ORDINANCE levying assess
ments for part of the cost of im
proving West Thirteenth (Mes
quite) street, in the City of
Brownsville, between the east
line of St. Charles street and the
west line of Washington street,
except intersection with Levee
street, to be paved in another
unit, fixing a charge and lien
against property abutting there
on and against owners thereof,
providing for the collection of
such assessments and issuance of
assignable certificates in evidence
thereof.
BE IT ORDAINED by the City of
Brownsville:
Whereas, the City of Brownsville,
Texas, has heretofore ordered that
West Thirteenth (Mesquite) street
in said city from the east line of
St. Charles street to the west line
of Washington street except inter
section with Levee street, to be
paved in another unit, be improved
by raising, grading, filling, install
ing concrete curbs and gutters
where such curbs and gutters are
not already installed on proper
grade and line, and paving with one
and one-half inch Warrenite Bitu
lithic wearing surface on two and
one-half inch bituminous concrete
base on three inch compressed
gravel sub-base, together with all
incidentals and appurtenances, and
the construction of such improve
ments and contract therefor was
awarded to and entered into with
Southwest Bitulithic company; and,
WHEREAS, the City Paving En
gineer of said City prepared and
filed a roll or statement for the im
provements in said portion of street,
showing the amounts to be assessed
against the various parcels of or in
terests in rarcels of abutting pro
perty and the owners thereof, and
showing other matters and things,
and the same was examined by the
City Commission of the Cit of
Brownsville, and approved, and time
and place was fixed for hearing to
the owners of such abutting proper
ty, and to all others in anywise in
terested therein, or having any lien
or claim thereon, and due and pro
per notice of the time, place and
purpose of such hearing was given.
LEGAL ADVEKTISEMF <iT
and said hearing waa had and held
at the time and place fixed there
for, to-wit, on the 6th day of
April, A. D. 1928, at 10 o’clock,
A. M., in the City Council room in
the City Hall in the City of Browns
ville, Texas, and said hearing was
continued until all desiri-g to be
heard were given full ana fair op
portunity to be heard, and the said
City Commission having fully con
sidered the evidence and all proper
matters, the said hearing was final
ly closed on the 6th day of April,
1928, and
WHEREAS, the City Commission
from the evidence finds that the as
sessment sand charges are right and
proper and are substantially in pro
portion to the benefits to the res
pective parcels of property by means
of the improvements in the said por
tion of street for which such assess
ments are levied, and establish sub
stantial justice and equality and uni
formity between the repective own
ers of the respective properties or
interests therein, and between alt
parties concerned, considering the
benefits received and burdens im
posed, and further finds that in each
case the abutting property, or inter
est therein assessed, as the case
may be, is especially benefited in
enhanced value to said property or
interest therein, as the case may be,
by means of the improvements in
the said portion of street upon which
said property abutts, and for which
assessment is levied and charge
made, in a sum in excess of the
costs of the improvements is in ac
cordance with the law and charter
in force in this city and the proceed
ings heretofore had with reference
to said improvement*, and is in all
respects valid and regular.
NOW,,THEREFORE, BE IT FUR
THER ORDAINEP:
I
That (here shall be and is hereby
levied «iid assessed against the par
cel'. «*i property, or inteerst in par
cels of property, as the case may be.
hereinbelow mentioned and against
the real and true owners thereof,
whether such owners be correctly
named herein, the sum of money be
low mentioned and itemized, shown
opposite the description of the re
spective parcels of property, or in
terests in property, the descriptions
of such property, or interests there
in, the various amounts assessed
attaint t the same, and the owners
thereof, so far as such owners are
known being as follows:
CONTRACT NO. 11
Engineer’s Roll or Statement for
West Thirteenth street from its in
tersection with the east line of St.
Charles street to its intersection
with the west line of Washington
street, except intersections with
I.even street, known and designated
(4 as Unit or Distrit, No. 11.
Name of Owner— Front T°la]
Lot Blk. Addn. Foot Assmt.
TeRoy K. Morris . 6 23 W. B’ville 120 $392.17
R. R M olls . 7 29 W. B’villc 120 292.17
Mrs. Helen H. McCain. 1 37 W. B’ville l?o 292.1.
N. R. Quinn . 12 37 W. B’ville 120 292.17
L C Miller 6 29 W. B’vill* 120 392.17
Geneve E. Smith '. 7 29 W. BVille 120 39217
Mrs. Ettie L. M’illiams . 1 3C W. B stile 1-0 j9-.1i
State National Bank and J- G. Fer
nandez. each 1-2 undivided in- _
terest . -12 36 W. B’ville 120 392.17
Tohn Grexr.1.11....11.. « W. B’ville 120 292.17
5*"i 5fe.Uri,,,n“.> £ 5:Ki!!: 8X SS
h. b.' M<.ier.« a; «.<>». mu
Total to be assessed .
City’s part . 2'21757
Total cost improvements in this Unit . $9,923.61
Assessed rate per front foot
for improvements—$3.268104.
II. '
That the several sum* above men
tioned And assessed against the said
parcels of property, or interc t- in
property, ani the owners thereof,
and interest thereon at the ute of 7
per cent oer annum, together with
reasonable attorney’s fees and costs
of collection, if incurred, are here
by declared to be and *n made a
lien uron the respective parcels of
property, or interests in parcels of
property, as the case may be.
against which the some are ssess
ed. and a personnl liability and
charge against the real and true
owners of such property, or inter
ests in property, whether such own
ers be named herein or not, ; nd the
liens shal be and constitute the first
enforcible lien and claim against
the property, or interes in prop
erty. on which such assessments * e
levied, and shall be first nnd para
mount lien thereon, superior to all
other liens and claims except rtate,
county and municipal taxes. The
sums so assessed against the abut
ting property, or interests in abut
ting property, and the owners there
of shall be and become due and pay
able as follows, to-wit:
In six (6) equal installments, due
respectively on or before thirty (30)
days, 1, 2. 3. 4. and 5 years after the
date of completion and acceptance by
the City of the improvements in said
portion of street, and shall ear in
terest at the rate of 7 per cent per
annum, payable annually .nth ch
installment. Provided that any own
er shall have the right to pay the
entire assessment, or any install
ment therof before maturity by pay
ment of principal and accrued inter
est, and provided further that if de
fault shall be made in the nr- -nent
of any installment of principal or in
terest promptly as the -ame ma
tures, the entire amount of the as
sessment upon which such default
is made shall, at the opinion of the
said contractor. Southwest Bitulithic
company, or its assigns, be and be
come due and payable, and shall he
collectible, together ^ith reasonable
attorney’s fees, and costs of collec
tion, if incurred.
in.
The fact that such improvements
may be omitted on that portion of
street adjacent to any premises ex
empt from the lien of such assess
ments shall in nowise invalidate, af
fect or impair the lien of such as
sessments upon other premises. All
assessments levied are a personal lia
bility and charge against the real
and true owners of the premises de
scribed, notwithstanding such own
ers may not be named or may be in
correctly named. No mistake, error
invalidity or irregularity In the
name of any property owner or the
description of any property or the
amount of any assessment or in any
other matter or thing, shqll in any
wise invalidate or imnair any as
sessments hereby levied, or any cer
tificate issued to evidence the same
as hereinafter provided, and any
such mistake, error, invalidity or Ir
regularity. whether in such assess
ments or in the certificates issued in
evidence thereof, may be corrected
at any time by the City, and the full
power to make and levy re-assess
ments and to correct mistakes, er
rors, invalidities or Irregularities,
either in the assesments or in the
certificates issued in evidence there
of. is in accordance with the law
ar.d charter in force in the city,
vested in the city.
IV.
The City of Brownsville shall not
i be In any manner liable f r the pay
ment of the sums hereby assessed
and the Southwest Bitulithic com
pany or its assigns shall look solely
to such property and the owners
thereof for the payment of -uch as
sessments. but the ~ity of Browrs
ville shall exercise all of its lawful
powers to aid in the enforcement
and collection of said liens and
sums and personal obligations. If
default shall be made ir the pay
ment of anv assessment, collection
thereof shall be enforced either by
sale of the premises, by the Tax
Collector of the city on request of
the legal holder of the certificate is
sued in evidence of such assessment
in the sama manner as e- dy as os*
sible and after the same r * ertise
ment as is provided by law and the
charter of this city for sales for de
linquent ad valorem taxes, or in case
of such default upon demand of the
legal holder of such certificate, this
city will exercise its charter powers
to enforce and collect this certificate
by suit in its own name for the
benefit of said holder, or said legal
holder may bring suit for the en
forcement of said certificate in any
court having jurisdiction.
V.
For the purpose of evidencing the
several sums assessed ag-inst the
respective parcels of abutting prop
erty herein assessed, or the inter
ests in the parcels of abutting prop
erty herein assessed, and the owners
thereof, and the time and terras of
payment and to aid in the enforce
ment thereof, assignable certificates
shall be issued and delivered to aaid
Bitulithic company by the City of
Brownsville, upon the completion
and acceptance by the City f aaid
improvements in said portion f
street, which certificates shall be
executed in the manner and rna
and with the provisions and re
citals prescribed In a certain ordi
nance duly passed by th city com
mission of the City of Brownsville
on June 7th, 1927, which ordinance is
one providing .or the issuance of as
signable certificates of assessment
declaring and evidencing assess
ments made against abutting prop
erty and its owners and railroads or
street railroads and their owners foi
a portion of the cost of street im
provements upon streets and othei
highways or portions thereof In the
City of Brownsville, and prescribing
the provisions of such certificate!
and providing that payments madi
thereon may bt made to the rits
Tax Collector and further Prescrib
ing the duties of the City Tax rol
lector and the City Treasurer with
reference to raorey so paid.
VI.
That any and all suma payabl«
upon any assessments her*'** mad
or any certificates evidencing th*1
same, may be paid to the Tax Col
lector of the City of Brownsville as
provided in and authorised by said
ordinance of Jur.e 7th, 1927. describ
ed in the preceding paragraph here
of and the duties of the City Taj
Collector and the City Treasure!
with reference to any and all such
i .
ubuai aim aimaminci
payments shall be thosa prescribed
is said ordinance.
Finally passed and approved this
4th day of May, A. D. 1928.
A. B. COLE. Mayor,
City of Brownsville, Texas.
Attest:
A. E. M UNDAY, City Secy.
2-18-25-2t-3338
BANK SU8PENDS
BRECKENRIDGE, Tex., Feb. 18.—
(A -S. T. Swenson, president, today
announced the voluntary eu .pension
of business by the First National
Bank at Caddo. While liquidation is
in progress the bank will remain
open, but no deposits will be accept
ed, Swenson said. All depositors are
to If paid in full.
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Byrd Ship Safe
In New Zealand
DUNDEIN, N. Z., Feb. 18.—(iPV
The ship Eleanor Bolling of the
Byrd Antarctic expedition arrived
here today, 72 hoara overdue becanee
of a terrific storm encountered on'
her northward voyage from “Little
America” the Byrd base at the Bey
of Whales. The storm still is rag
ing in the South Pacific.
LOOK UP and down tho classified
ad columns instead of walking op
and down the street when yon are
looking for a place to live.
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Classified Business Directory
Architect*
BEN V. PROCTER
ENGINEERING CO.
Architect* — Engineer*
208 Merchant* Sank. Bldg
Phone 617
Brownsville. Texas.
E. G. HOLLIDAY
Architect and Bu ldcr
109 State Nat. ^ank Bldg.
Phone 906
R. NEWELL WATERS
Architect
9-12 Secnrity State Bunk Building
Weslaco. Toxas
A. A. Callaway & Co.
Architects and
Engineers
41* Merchants Bank
BuildLg
Brow: ville, Texas
Builders—Contractors
G. E. Miller
TILE DRAINAGE
CONTRACTOR AND ENGINEER
P. 0. Address R. F. D. No. 1.
San Benito
Telephone 6095 F 12 H-S9
PROCTER & DUDLEY
General Contractors
528 Washington St.
Brownsville, Texas
Phone 627
I
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Cash Registers
NATIONAL CASH REGISTER CO..
Register* bought, sold and txcbanged
W E. Sanders Representative
I'hone 29 Harlingen Tesne Bos 906
Dray—7 ransrer
Mason Transfer Sc
Grain Co.
BONDED WAREHOUSE
SEEDS OF ALL KINDS
Light and Heavv Hauling.
WE MOVE ANYTHING
1105 Adams. Phona t39.
AUSTIN
TRANSFER AND STORAGE CO
Phones 421 and 619
1126 Washington St.
Jones Transfer &
Storage Co.
Storing, moving, ertting and
shipping. Local and long dis
tance hauling. Daily motor
freight service between all
Valley points. Harlingen,
Brownsville. Edinburg.
Office 1259 Levee
Phone 787
Truck leaves Brownsville 11:30 Daily
Florists
THE FLOWER SHOP
Cut flowers, pot plants,
funeral designs and
bouquets
1254 Elizabeth St.
Phone 1388
BOWYER THE FLORIST flowan
and funeral designs St Chsrlei
and Pit* streets ?hont 771.
HOTELS—CAFES
WHITE KITCHEN
Famous for Us
Cooking—Immaculacy
and Service
Tbs popular place for
business lunches
13th bstween Elisabstb and
Washington
Hotel Hollingsworth
American Style.
Day, Week or Monthly Rata.
Phone .037-J.
Insurance
McDonald-Howard
Agency
Loans • Insurance - Real Estats
Rooms 1 and ?, Arcade Bldg.
Phone 1090
N
IF IT'S -Your Mov* Next," you wil
find that good drsym*n and uxpar
movers offer their services througl
tba classified ad%
fk
Insurance
\V. B. CLINT
INSURANCE
SURETY BONDS
208-9 Merchants National
Bank
nimvp c
Mattress Renovating
Let Us Renovate
Your Mattress
We make matt reseat to ordar. All
repair work guaranteed.
SOMMERS
12th and Adams
Phone 674
OFFICE EQUIPMENT
ART METAL
FILING
Equipmant
Mararick-CIarka Litho Co.
208 Mcrchanta National Bask
Phone 617—Browsavills
Office Equipment and Supplies
HARGROVE’S STATIONER! A
BOOK STORE
Brownaeilia. Texas. _
Funeral Directors
Hinkley Mortuary
Complete Funeral Service
Phones 123—300
St. Charles and Eleventh
Street
Typewriter*
DAVENPORT Typewriter Exchange,
(Brownsville’s Typewriter Hooae)
Distributors. New L. C. Smith “81
lent” 8 end Late Corona 4 type
writers. Also sell Royal Portables
and "Factory” Rebuilts—all makes.
We repair all makes typewriter and
adding machines. 1112 Elisabeth St*
Phone 1105.
WOODSTOCK TYPEWRITER
SALES CO.
Typewriters—Adding Machines
Supplies—Repairs
Phone 60S— Harlingen Z-1I
PROFESSIONAL
Attorney*
Devon port. West sad Ransoms
Attorneys at Law
807-808 Merchants National Bank
Brownsville. Texas
H. B GALBRAITH
Attorney at Law
Merchants National Bank Bldg.
Brownsville. Texas.
J. T. Canales C. S. Eidman it.
CANALES AND El DM AN
Attorneys at Law
Real Estate a Specialty
803 Merchants National Bank
Brownsville Taiaa
H. L. TATES
Attorney at Law
State National Back Bldg.
Brownsville. Texas
Chiropodist
FOOT SPEC1AU8T
Dr. E. Hillmger on highway oetweea
San Benito and Harlinren All foot
troubles treated * D-160
Chiropractor
M Look, L). C.
CHIROPRACT^r
Nerv-O-Meter Service
State National Bank Bldg
Brownsville. Texas
Boom 406 Phene 701
EL VIBRA SYSTEM USED
DR. C. RANZELL
Chiropractic— Electro—Therapy
Massage and Bath
Cromaek Bldg. Brownsville
M-412
REAL ESTATE
LOS EBANOS
Brownsville’s Supreme BesidenHal
District, carefully restricted com
pletely improved Home eitee from
«12i»u.no easy term*. Jam* Diekin
son Co* Realtors, corner reveler.
Hotel Bldg. Brownsville E-t
WEARING APPARENT
bettots
Tailoring and Haberdashery
1 The Home of
l Bench M* <!• Clothes,
i lk»o Elisabeth Phone 625^
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